placens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →placeo, placere, placui, placitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Taking Dative
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
please, satisfy, give pleasure to (with dat.);; it is pleasing/satisfying, gives pleasure; is believed/settled/agreed/decided;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...securus et ob ipsa quae aliis displicent sibi placens, qui profectum suum vita aestimet et tantum scire..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...male appetere, etiam si magister eius sibi placens sit. Nec uno loco consistit, sed venit <raro; scit..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quod non expetendum sit, aut expetendum, quod non placens, aut, si id, non etiam diligendum; ergo et probandum..."